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Basin Oil Pipeline

Basin Oil Pipeline is a crude oil pipeline carrying Permian Basin oil from west Texas and southern New Mexico to Cushing, Oklahoma, owned and operated by Plains All American Pipeline.

Basque Energy Board

The Basque Energy Board (Ente Vasco de la Energía, EVE) is the energy agency of the Basque Government in northern Spain, based in Bilbao and managing renewable energy and storage programs.

Basra Oil Company

Basra Oil Company (شركة نفط البصرة), formerly the South Oil Company, is Iraq's state-owned crude oil producer in Basra province, renamed in 2017 and producing around 3 million barrels per day.

Basra Sealines Oil Pipelines

The Basra Sealines are Iraq's offshore crude oil export pipelines, running from Basra to Persian Gulf tanker terminals and carrying most of Iraq's seaborne oil exports.

Basrah Heavy

Basrah Heavy is a heavy, sour Iraqi crude oil export grade, 24° API with 4% sulfur, launched by SOMO in June 2015 to protect Basrah Light's quality.

Bataan Nuclear Power Plant

The Bataan Nuclear Power Plant is a completed 620 MW nuclear reactor at Napot Point in Morong, Bataan, Philippines, built between 1976 and 1984 but never operated.

Batan Oil and Gas Field

Batan is an onshore oil and gas field in the western Niger Delta of Nigeria, within Oil Mining Lease 42 and operated since 2011 by Neconde Energy.

Batch transportation

Batch transportation is the movement of different liquid petroleum products, such as gasoline, diesel, and kerosene, through the same pipeline in successive batches that keep their identity, with some mixing at each interface.

Bath County Pumped Storage Station

The Bath County Pumped Storage Station is a pumped-storage hydroelectric plant in Bath County, Virginia, the largest in the United States at 3,003 megawatts, operating since 1985.

Battalion Oil

Battalion Oil Corporation, the successor to Halcón Resources since January 2020, is a Houston-based independent energy company producing oil and gas in the Delaware Basin of West Texas.

Battersea Power Station

Battersea Power Station is a decommissioned coal-fired power station on the south bank of the Thames in Battersea, London, built in two stages between 1929 and 1955 for the London Power Company and closed in 1983.

Battery

A battery is a device that converts chemical energy into electrical energy by an electrochemical reaction, invented in 1800 and divided into single-use and rechargeable classes.

Battery 2030+

Battery 2030+ is a long-term European research initiative on future battery technologies, launched in March 2019, coordinated by Uppsala University, and funded through the EU's Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe programs.

Battery charge limiting

Battery charge limiting is the practice of capping a rechargeable lithium-ion battery's maximum state of charge below 100%, by firmware or operating-system software, to slow aging and extend battery life.

Battery charger

A battery charger is a device that restores energy to a rechargeable battery with controlled current, from USB adapters to DC fast chargers rated up to 500 kW.

Battery electrolyte

A battery electrolyte is the ion-conducting medium between a battery's two electrodes, carrying ions during charge and discharge, ranging from sulfuric acid to organic solvents.

Battery management system

A battery management system (BMS) is an electronic system that monitors and controls a rechargeable battery to keep it safe, required in electric vehicles, grid storage, and portable equipment.

Battery Resourcers

Battery Resourcers was an American lithium-ion battery recycling company founded in 2015 as a Worcester Polytechnic Institute spinoff in Massachusetts, renamed Ascend Elements in January 2022.

Battery separator

A battery separator is a porous, insulating membrane between a battery cell's anode and cathode that prevents electronic contact while allowing ion transport, strongly affecting safety and cycle life.

Battery swapping

Battery swapping is a way of recharging electric vehicles by exchanging a depleted battery for a charged one at a station in minutes, with the operator owning the batteries.

Battery500 Consortium

The Battery500 Consortium is a U.S. Department of Energy research program, led by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory since 2016, developing 500 Wh/kg lithium-metal batteries for electric vehicles.

Battle of Blair Mountain

The Battle of Blair Mountain, also called the Red Neck War, was a 1921 armed clash between unionizing West Virginia coal miners and Sheriff Don Chafin's forces.

Battle River power station

Battle River power station, also called Battle River Generating Station, is a power plant near Forestburg, Alberta, converted from coal to natural gas by 2021.

Battman Energy

Battman Energy is a Danish developer and operator of battery energy storage systems, founded in Aarhus in 2022, with a committed portfolio of 350 MW and 1,040 MWh.

Bauge (oil field)

Bauge is a Norwegian oil field on Haltenbanken in the Norwegian Sea, discovered in 2013 as Snilehorn and producing since 2023 via a subsea tieback to Njord, operated by Equinor.

Baúna Oil and Gas Field

The Baúna Oil and Gas Field is an offshore oil field in Brazil's Santos Basin, discovered in 2008 and operated by Karoon Energy since 2020.

Bavlinskoye Oil Field

The Bavlinskoye Oil Field (Бавлинское месторождение) is a large multi-reservoir oil field in southeast Tatarstan, Russia, discovered in 1944, which yielded the republic's first high-flow Devonian oil in 1946 and pioneered waterflooding.

Bavuca South Oil Field

Bavuca South Oil Field (Bavuca Sul) is an operating conventional oil field in Block 15, offshore Angola, discovered in 2022 and operated by an ExxonMobil affiliate.

Bay Runner Pipeline

Bay Runner Pipeline is a roughly 145-mile intrastate natural gas pipeline in South Texas running from Agua Dulce to Port Isabel, with up to 2.64 Bcf/d capacity.

Bayanhua Jinshan power station

The Bayanhua Jinshan power station (华电白音华金山电厂) is a coal-fired power station in Xilingol, Inner Mongolia, China, with two 600 MW lignite units operating since 2010.